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Letter: Alma Hernandez uses her public platform to tear down, not build up
Over the weekend, Representative Alma Hernandez took to social media to accuse community members of criminal conduct before establishing the facts of the situation. She posted photographs of two men and asserted they had been removing her campaign signs, despite those same photographs being cited, as contradicting that accusation. The post exposed private citizens to public ridicule and harassment.
Countering dangerous narratives in dangerous times
The narratives we choose can define the policies and culture we get. This is true of climate-driven migration as much as any other issue. The election of Donald Trump and a new wave of authoritarian politics in Europe has left many climate advocates wondering how to respond. Humane policies on human movement feel more distant, and robust climate policy feels under threat.
We need a jigsaw approach to climate-driven displacement
By Alex Randall on November 13, 2024 Each year the climate negotiations attempt to deal with the human cost of climate change – in particular climate-driven displacement. While recent talks have acknowledged the issue, concrete action remains elusive. We are well into this year’s United Nations climate conference but questions remain about its role in addressing climate-driven migration and displacement.
We need to change the conversation about migration: it's a powerful tool of climate resilience and adaptation
When people move to find work they very often send a portion of their income back to their family who have stayed behind. This flow of money is becoming a critical aspect of climate resilience. This money may be invested in enhancing local agricultural resilience, such as improving irrigation or switching to drought-tolerant crops. This financial flow also helps provide a financial safety net for families affected by climate change.
Creating climate resilience through migration
Across the world, people are already using migration as a way of coping with climate change. Climate change is intensifying disasters like droughts, and individuals are relocating to protect their lives and livelihoods. Governments negotiating at COP must acknowledge this new reality. By making migration safer, we enable more people to use it as a means of building their climate resilience. People on the move always face risks.
We’re interested! Consortium application for UKRI health co-benefits of the transition to net zero funding
We have two particular specialisms that we believe would be of use to any consortium seeking to deliver impactful and people-focused projects: 1. Understanding the lived experience, world views and narratives of particular communities or people, and how climate change, its impacts and solutions relate to these. Climate Outreach are experts in public engagement on climate change.
Why Is The Barkley Marathons So Hard?
Running ultramarathons is challenging and not for everyone. For those that run ultramarathons, the Barkley Marathons does not seem so hard when considered on paper. It covers 100 miles in 60 hours. Some ultramarathons are longer, and some are in hotter or colder places. What makes the 100 miles of the Barkley so challenging to complete? The Barkley Marathons is purposely disorganized. There are no aid stations along the marathon route.
Commentary: A Tribute to Addie Ottley Original
I ghostwrote many eulogies for Addie to deliver. I always wondered how I would write his. He seemed eternal. It is so strange to think that Addie has passed. There was one time when he needed to make a list of his medical conditions for his health insurance. We sat at the news desk, and he started listing things while I typed. After two and a half pages, I stopped and said, “Addie, most of the stuff on this list is enough to kill people.
Paramedics should be powerful climate messengers, instead they fret over plastic
Your browser is no longer supported. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. Home»Blog By Alex Randall on January 24, 2022 Paramedics are in a powerful position as potential climate change communicators due to their real world experience of dealing with its health impacts. But instead, thinking about climate change leads many to worry about the environmental impacts of the profession, and to feel guilty and powerless. This needs to change.
Panthers MBB ready to pounce in Year Three under Jeff Capel
by Alex Randall After an off-season filled with uncertainty, Jeff Capel and the Panthers are ready to pounce in the ACC. Capel enters his third year as head coach looking to improve upon last season’s 6-14 conference record (16-17 overall). But much has changed since March, the last time the Panthers suited up for a game. Here’s a look at the key differences from last year’s squad and how things could unfold in what will surely be a wild 2020 season.
Luckless Pitt falls to #3 Notre Dame
by Alex Randall The Panthers headed into Saturday’s game hosting the nation’s #3 team, the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, while welcoming fans to Heinz Field for the first time in the 2020 season. The excitement evaporated immediately. The Panthers got outplayed by the Irish, 45-3, in one of the ugliest games in recent memory. Filling in for injured starter Kenny Pickett, Joey Yellen had an abysmal game, going 10-27 with 101 yards and 3 interceptions before eventually being benched.
#24 Pitt falls in hairy contest vs. NC State
by Alex Randall After coming out of the gate red hot, the Pittsburgh Panthers (3-1) fell to the NC State Wolfpack (2-1) 30-29 on Saturday at Heinz Field. After getting off to a hot start on a Jordan Addison 75-yard touchdown catch on the second play from scrimmage, the Panthers struggled through the first half. 9 penalties for 90 yards cost the team, which found themselves down 17-7after being carved up by NC State quarterback Devin Leary.
NFL: The 5 Worst Retired Jerseys of All Time
Jersey retirements are a way to honor a team’s best. Most times, the players had Hall of Fame careers or led the team to a championship. But not all retirements are this easy to celebrate. In some cases, teams retire jerseys of players who didn’t do enough to get their number in the rafters. Whether a player wasn’t on the team long enough or his contributions don’t add up, these are the worst retired jerseys in the NFL. 1.
Neoliberalism Drives Climate Breakdown, not Human Nature
Attempts by the New York Times to blame humanity as a whole for climate change let the real culprits off the hook. Many zoos have an exhibit like this: a wall with a hatch, and under the hatch words like “Do you want to see the most dangerous animal in the world?”. Of course everyone does, and before they open the hatch they speculate as to what the animal behind the hatch will be. A lion? A crocodile? However, when you open the hatch there is a mirror, and you see yourself staring back.
Neoliberalism Drives Climate Breakdown, Not Human Nature
Many zoos have an exhibit like this: a wall with a hatch, and under the hatch words like “Do you want to see the most dangerous animal in the world?”. Of course everyone does, and before they open the hatch they speculate as to what the animal behind the hatch will be. A lion? A crocodile? However, when you open the hatch there is a mirror, and you see yourself staring back. You are the most dangerous animal in the world. Of course this is nonsense.
Migration is a successful climate adaptation strategy
After a particularly bad year for rainfall, Miguel told a group of researchers that he was leaving Mexico for the US. This wasn’t a permanent move he explained, he would be back. In fact, he’d made the move several times before. “The only solution is to go away, at least for a while. Each year, I’m working for three to five months in Wyoming. That’s my main source of income.” The ability to cross the border and find work in the US has become a lifeline for many of Mexico’s farmers.
A very special St. Thomas history Tour
As the cruise ship is coming into St. Thomas, we look in on typical passengers in their stateroom.Blanche: “Oh boy, honey, we are on St. Thomas. We love St. Thomas. Let’s do something new this time.”Harry: “Yeah, last time we did all those jewelry shops on Main Street, and the time before that we took that safari tour. And I remember that on our anniversary cruise we saw Coral World. That was great.
Temporary safety net
After a particularly bad year for rainfall, Miguel told a group of researchers that he was leaving Mexico for the US. This wasn’t a permanent move he explained, he would be back. In fact, he’d made the move several times before. “The only solution is to go away, at least for a while. Each year, I’m working for three to five months in Wyoming. That’s my main source of income.” The ability to cross the border and find work in the US has become a lifeline for many of Mexico’s farmers.
Migration is a successful climate adaptation strategy
After a particularly bad year for rainfall, Miguel told a group of researchers that he was leaving Mexico for the US. This wasn't a permanent move he explained, he would be back. In fact, he'd made the move several times before. "The only solution is to go away, at least for a while. Each year, I'm working for three to five months in Wyoming. That's my main source of income." The ability to cross the border and find work in the US has become a lifeline for many of Mexico's farmers.
Statue of limitations
On Monday, it came to our attention that the University plans to permanently lodge a hideous sculpture in front of Butler Library. Administrators have not announced an unveiling date, but we expect installation to be completed within days. The bronze monument, titled Reclining Figure, was sculpted by the noted English artist Henry Moore—presumably after he woke up from a terrible nightmare. As both inheritors and wards of our beautiful campus, we object to this desecration of our home.
Either victims or terrorists
Just before this year’s Bonn climate talks, New Zealand announced that it is considering a new ‘climate refugee' visa system. This is only the latest way New Zealand has attempted to deal with climate-linked migration from the Pacific. This was a hot topic in the country before, when, in 2014, when an immigration tribunal in New Zealand decided the Kiribati man Ioane Teitiota would not become the world’s first ‘climate refugee’.
New Zealand Proposes Humanitarian Visa for ‘Climate Refugees’
New Zealand’s proposal for a new visa for “climate refugees” should be seen as an act of genuine political leadership. The announcement coincided with the start of this year’s international climate change negotiations. The proposal was also designed to signal to other regional governments that New Zealand was taking a pragmatic and humane approach to the issue of climate-linked migration.
Climate migration will only be a crisis if we make it into one
Migration caused by climate change doesn’t have to be a crisis. In fact, with the right planning, migration can become a powerful form of climate adaptation. Last year 23 million people were displaced by extreme weather. As climate change alters the atmosphere, we can expect this kind of human displacement to increase. The displacement of people is now fundamentally linked to climate change.
Speed and Sensitivity of Phototransduction in Drosophila Depend on Degree of Saturation of Membrane Phospholipids
Introduction Phototransduction in Drosophila is mediated by a G-protein-coupled PLC cascade, localized in a stack of ?30,000 microvilli together forming a light-guiding rhabdomere. The electrical response is characterized by exquisite sensitivity to single photons with kinetics ?10–100× faster than in vertebrate rods (Yau and Hardie, 2009; for review, see Katz and Minke, 2009; Fain et al., 2010; Hardie, 2012).
The Many Faces of Climate Change Migration in Asia
We tend to think of climate-linked migration as unplanned, chaotic movement. But it also takes the form of planned, organized projects to move away from places badly affected by climate change. These projects are not always successful, and the people being “relocated” are not always willing participants. But countries across Asia and the Pacific have been at the forefront of these relocations and the rest of the world must learn from the successes and problems.
Want to convince Trump to care about climate? Scaremongering about refugees won’t help.
After the election of Donald Trump, people concerned about climate change will be searching for ways to convince the world’s most powerful climate denier that he should address the greatest challenge of our time. And what better way than presenting climate change as a threat to national security and a driver of unprecedented flows of refugees? Yesterday, an international group of military leaders declared that climate change would create an “unimaginable” refugee crisis.
Beyond 2016: moving America forward
It seems a cottage industry of commentators has emerged to try and explain the rise of Donald Trump and his recent capture of the White House. What they fail to address, however, is that over the past year globalisation has created a new class structure in the West?—?those who have benefited from globalisation and those who have not?—?which does not fall neatly along previously recognised political lines.
Trump, Putin, and the new Middle East
The election of Trump will give second wind to autocrats in the region as well as create space for the growth of Russian influence. The presidency of Donald Trump, symptomatic of a deep crisis in the liberal capitalist order, can spell wide ranging structural changes in Middle East international relations, changes that will serve to embolden and strengthen the hands of autocrats, from Sisi in Egypt to Assad in Syria.
OD FP 17/11/2016 | openDemocracy
Democracy is not something you take from one country and put in another, was the message to a reporter from the openDemocracy youth newsroom.
FP 16/11/2016 | openDemocracy
"The problem is not with democracy, but with how the elites are practicing it": our youth newsroom went behind the scenes at this year's World Forum for Democracy.
Review: The Fall, series 3
Too often, UK drama series are re-commissioned simply because of audience figures, irrespective of whether their quality or inherent open-endedness justifies such extension. So “Broadchurch 2” on ITV was a complete bust, despite the success of the first series; “Missing” (on BBC1) and “Humans” (Channel 4) have started their second series, neither very promisingly (“Missing” has mysteriously become “The Missing”).
Holding back the tears in Trump’s America
The day after the American presidential elections, New York’s skyline was filled with darkness and rain. One friend told me that he stood outside his apartment block, on the upper west side of the city, observing those leaving for work that morning. “The atmosphere here in the city the day after was not unlike the trauma, shock and disbelief I experienced in the days after 9/11,” he said.
Trump and climate change: why not talk about threat multipliers?
Discussing climate-linked migration as a “threat” requires adopting the premise that migration is a threat. And perhaps even that migrants themselves are a threat. Over the coming weeks everyone concerned about climate change will begin thinking about how to convince President-elect Trump of its importance. Inevitably these discussions will turn towards making climate change a national security concern.
Climate change and colonial history make a toxic combination
Without proper context, the new research can be mis-read to be against ethnic diversity, writes Alex Randall. New research points to a powerful link between climate change and armed conflict. It also finds that countries that are ethnically mixed are more likely to experience this kind of conflict. But their results may actually tell us more about the consequences of colonialism than ethnic diversity.
The role of climate change in the Syria crisis: how the media got it wrong
Last year, the media started joining the dots between the crisis in Syria and climate change. But they only got half the story right. They badly misrepresented the role of social movements in Syria; and they painted Syrian migrants as a source of violence and chaos. Most reporting ignored the complex relationship between climate, drought, migration and conflict. Research by the Climate and Migration Coalition reveals a disconnect between what the media claimed and what actually happened.
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